EP3661087A1 - Procédé et dispositif de rétroaction d'informations de rétroaction de canal de liaison descendante, et procédé et dispositif d'appariement d'utilisateur - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de rétroaction d'informations de rétroaction de canal de liaison descendante, et procédé et dispositif d'appariement d'utilisateur Download PDF

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EP3661087A1
EP3661087A1 EP20151025.2A EP20151025A EP3661087A1 EP 3661087 A1 EP3661087 A1 EP 3661087A1 EP 20151025 A EP20151025 A EP 20151025A EP 3661087 A1 EP3661087 A1 EP 3661087A1
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  • the disclosure generally relates to a communication field, in particular to feeding back downlink channel feedback information of a user in a Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, communication system and user pairing of a base station.
  • MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • multi-antenna transmission is divided into single user MIMO (SU-MIMO) transmission mode and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) transmission mode.
  • SU-MIMO single user MIMO
  • MU-MIMO multi-user MIMO
  • a base station in the SU-MIMO transmission, a base station (BS) sends a plurality of data streams on the same time-frequency resource to the same user.
  • a base station in the MU-MIMO transmission, a base station (BS) sends a plurality of data streams on the same time-frequency resource to different users, and improves the system capacity by transmitting data simultaneously to a plurality of users.
  • Pre-coding technology is a signal processing technology which pre-processes the transmitted symbols at the transmitting side by using channel state in order to eliminate interference, improve system capacity and the like.
  • the pre-coding needs the base station to know transmission channel information and determine a pre-coding matrix based on the transmission channel information.
  • pre-coding technology may be a pre-coding technology based on codebook, in which the codebook is the same with respect to user equipment (UE) and base station (BS).
  • UE user equipment
  • BS base station
  • a user notifies a base station of the pre-coding matrix used by the user by feeding back a pre-coding matrix indication (PMI) to the base station.
  • PMI pre-coding matrix indication
  • the PMI may be included in downlink channel feedback information which a user needs to feed back to a base station.
  • the downlink channel feedback information is information for reflecting the downlink channel state which the user feeds back to the base station through uplink channel.
  • the downlink channel feedback information which a user feeds back to a base station may includes: the PMI for indicating a pre-coding matrix; and a feedback channel quality indication (CQI) for selecting a modulation coding mode of transmission data by the base station.
  • CQI feedback channel quality indication
  • the PMI and CQI in the downlink channel feedback information which a user feeds back to a base station is obtained by optimizing the PMI and CQI in the situation of SU-MIMO transmission.
  • using the PMI obtained in the situation of SU-MIMO transmission in MU-MIMO transmission may induce influence to the selection of paired user in MU-MIMO transmission and thus influence to the communication performance.
  • the base station determines whether the MU-MIMO transmission or the SU-MIMO transmission is used according to the downlink channel feedback information.
  • the base station obtains the pre-coding matrix according to the PMI in the downlink channel feedback information, and selects a suitable modulation coding mode for the user according to the CQI in the downlink channel feedback information.
  • the base station needs to first select paired user(s) for the user according to the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user, and then obtain a pre-coding matrix for the user and select a suitable modulation coding mode for the user according to the PMI and CQI included in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by individual paired users selected for this user.
  • One object of the disclosure is to provide feeding back of downlink channel feedback information, which may further increase information for representing the quality indication error caused by the user parameter errors (such as the signal to noise ratio (SNR), synchronization difference, location difference and the like) in the MU-MIMO transmission in the downlink channel feedback information, in the downlink channel feedback of the MU-MIMO transmission, thereby to achieve feeding more accurate downlink channel feedback information back to the base station.
  • the base station may obtain CQI and modulation coding mode more suitable for the user in a more accurate manner. Therefore, the demodulation error code rate may be reduced and the system performance may be improved.
  • the other object of the disclosure is to provide user pairing at base station side, which uses information for representing the quality indication error caused by the parameter errors (such as the signal to noise ratio, synchronization difference, location difference and the like) of the user in the MU-MIMO transmission, thereby to achieve more accurate modulation coding and pairing. Therefore, the demodulation error code rate of the user may be reduced and the system performance may be improved.
  • the parameter errors such as the signal to noise ratio, synchronization difference, location difference and the like
  • one embodiment of the disclosure provides a method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information of a MIMO communication system, comprising: calculating a multi-user channel quality indication error of a user in the system by the user, the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission; and adding the multi-user channel quality indication error to the downlink channel feedback information including a pre-coding matrix indication and a channel quality indication, and feeding the same back to a base station for scheduling of the user.
  • Another embodiment of the disclosure provides a method for user pairing of MIMO, comprising: a downlink channel feedback information receiving step of receiving downlink channel feedback information from a user, the downlink channel feedback information includes a pre-coding matrix indication, a channel quality indication, and a multi-user channel quality indication error, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user; an initial paired user selecting step of selecting the user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error from transmitting users as an initial paired user, the transmitting users include all the current transmitting users which are allowed to enter a multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission mode; a correlation calculating step of calculating the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users, and selecting one or more users from the other transmitting users as candidate paired user(s) according to the correlation; a paired user selecting step of selecting paired user(s) from the candidate paired user(s) according to the multi-
  • Another embodiment of the disclosure provides a method for communication in a Multiple Input Multiple Output system, comprising: feeding downlink channel feedback information back to a base station by a user; deciding by the base station whether a single user multiple input multiple output transmission mode or a multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission mode is used; obtaining a pre-coding matrix of the user by using a pre-coding matrix indication in the fed back downlink channel feedback information, and selecting a modulation coding mode for the user by using a channel quality indication in the fed back downlink channel feedback information, by the base station, in case of using the single user multiple input multiple output transmission mode; and executing pairing for the user, obtaining a pre-coding matrix for the multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission mode based on the pre-coding matrix indication in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user and the paired user(s) thereof, and selecting modulation coding mode corresponding to each user based on the channel quality indication and the multi-user channel quality indication error in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user and paired user
  • one embodiment of the disclosure provides an apparatus for feeding back downlink channel feedback information of a MIMO communication system, comprising: a multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit configured to calculate a multi-user channel quality indication error of a user, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission of the user; and a downlink channel feedback information feeding back unit configured to add the multi-user channel quality indication error to the downlink channel feedback information including a pre-coding matrix indication and a channel quality indication, and feeding the same back to a base station for scheduling.
  • One embodiment of the disclosure provides an apparatus for user pairing of a MIMO communication system, comprising: a downlink channel feedback information receiving unit configured to receive downlink channel feedback information from a user, wherein the downlink channel feedback information includes a pre-coding matrix indication, a channel quality indication, and a multi-user channel quality indication error, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission of the user; an initial paired user selecting unit configured to select the user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error from transmitting users as a paired user, the transmitting users include all the current transmitting users which are allowed to enter a multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission mode; a correlation calculating unit configured to calculate the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users, and selecting one or more users as candidate paired user(s) according to the correlation; a paired user selecting unit configured to select paired user(s) from the candidate paired user(s)
  • an embodiment of the disclosure further provides a user equipment comprising the apparatus for feeding back downlink channel feedback information as described above and a base station comprising the apparatus for user pairing as described above, and a communication system comprising at least one above user equipment and at least one above base station.
  • An embodiment of the disclosure also provides a computer program code when executed by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform the processes of any of above methods, a computer readable storage medium on which the computer program code is stored, and a computer program product.
  • Example embodiments of the disclosure will be described in conjunction with the Figures. For the sake of clearness and conciseness, the description does not describe all features of the actual embodiments. However, it shall be understood that decisions specific to embodiments have to be made in a procedure of developing such an actual embodiment to achieve the specific object of the developer, for example, complying with limited conditions relative to system and transaction, and those limited conditions may change in different embodiments. In addition, it shall be understood that although the developing working may be complex and time consuming, such a developing working is only routine for those skilled in the art benefit from the disclosure of the disclosure.
  • Figure 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • a user in a MIMO system calculates a multi-user channel quality indication error of the user.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may reflect the error in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user.
  • Such error may be caused by the parameters difference (such as the signal to noise ratio, synchronization difference, location difference and the like) of the user in the MU-MIMO transmission.
  • step S204 the user in the MIMO system feeds the multi-user channel quality indication error back to a base station along with the downlink channel feedback information.
  • the downlink channel feedback information which the user feeds back to the base station may include: the PMI for indicating a pre-coding matrix; and CQI for selecting a modulation coding mode of transmission data by the base station.
  • the user may use various known methods to obtain the PMI and CQI in the downlink channel feedback information.
  • the user may find out a pre-coding matrix corresponding to the user based on the measured channel information matrix, and then generate the PMI for representing the pre-coding matrix.
  • the user may obtain the value of related CQI based on the measured signal to noise ratio, for example.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error is further fed back to the base station, so that the error in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user may be reflected more accurately.
  • the user feeds more accurate downlink channel feedback information back to the base station, so that the base station may obtain CQI and modulation coding mode more suitable for the user in a more accurate manner. Therefore, the demodulation error code rate of the user may be reduced in the communication system and the system performance may be improved.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated by considering various parameters and using any suitable method.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated based on the signal to noise ratio.
  • Figure 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process for calculating the multi-user channel quality indication error according to the signal to noise ratio according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • a measuring is executed at step S302.
  • a user may measure the channel state thereof, thereby to obtain channel information matrix and the signal to noise ratio of the user.
  • the user may obtain the pre-coding matrix of the user based on the measured channel information matrix.
  • the pre-coding matrix may be obtained with the measured channel information matrix based on the following equation (1).
  • H represents the measured channel information matrix of the user
  • w i represents the pre-coding matrix
  • i represents the location of the pre-coding matrix in codebook, by which the pre-coding matrix can be obtained from the codebook
  • the size of the codebook is B.
  • step S304 quantization error may be calculated.
  • the quantization error is a parameter reflecting the error between the measured channel information matrix and the obtained pre-coding matrix.
  • the quantization error may be represented according to the channel information matrix and the pre-coding matrix.
  • the quantization error may be calculated according to the following equation (2).
  • e H H w i ⁇ H ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ w i ⁇
  • Equation (2) the meaning of H and w i are the same to that in equation (1), and e represents the quantization error.
  • step S306 the minimum interference level to the user is calculated.
  • the user with the minimum interference level to the user is found out, and the minimum interference level is calculated.
  • the potential paired users may be users meeting an orthogonal condition, for example, and the orthogonal condition may be that the pre-coding matrix corresponding to a potential paired user is orthogonal to the pre-coding matrix of the user, for example.
  • the minimum interference level may be calculated according to the following equation (3).
  • w i represents the pre-coding matrix of any potential paired user, the meaning of H and w; are the same to that in equation (1), and a represents the minimum interference level.
  • step S308 the signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of multi-user is calculated.
  • the above quantization error, the measured minimum interference level and the signal to noise ratio may be used to calculate the signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of multi-user.
  • the signal to noise ratio in the situation of multi-user may be calculated based on the following equation (4).
  • SNR MU ⁇ MIMO SNR / 2 ⁇ e 2 SNR / 2 ⁇ a 2 + 1
  • SNR represents the signal to noise ratio measured by the user
  • SNR MU-MIMO represents the evaluated signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of multi-user
  • e represents the quantization error
  • a represents the minimum interference level.
  • multi-user channel quality indication error of the user in the situation of multi-user MIMO transmission may be calculated.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated based on the signal to noise ratio measured by the user and the above calculated signal to noise ratio in MU-MIMO mode.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated based on the following equation (5).
  • V CQI SNR ⁇ CQI SNR MU ⁇ MIMO
  • SNR represents the signal to noise ratio measured by the user
  • SNR MU-MIMO represents the calculated signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of MU-MIMO transmission
  • CQI( ) represents channel quality indication function related to the signal to noise ratio
  • V represents the multi-user channel quality indication error of the user.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error of the user in the situation of MU-MIMO transmission may be calculated based on the signal to noise ratio.
  • the calculation of the multi-user channel quality indication error is explained by only taking the signal to noise ratio as an example, however, the above description is only an example, and the disclosure is not limited to this.
  • the calculation of the multi-user channel quality indication error may be executed by considering the influence of the other parameters (for example, time parameters (such as time synchronization difference), location parameters, and the like).
  • the calculation of the multi-user channel quality indication error may also be implemented based on time parameters, or based on a combination of time parameters and the signal to noise ratio.
  • an embodiment of the disclosure also provides a method of user pairing in MU-MIMO transmission mode of a MIMO system which is implemented at base station side.
  • Figure 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for user pairing in MU-MIMO transmission mode in a MIMO system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • a base station receives downlink channel feedback information from a user.
  • the downlink channel feedback information may include pre-coding matrix indication, channel quality indication, and multi-user channel quality indication error, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission of the user.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated with the method according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the base station selects an initial paired user from transmitting users.
  • the base station may select the user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error from the transmitting users as an initial paired user, for example.
  • the transmitting users may be defined as one or more users which are allowed to enter a multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission mode out of the users being transmitting data currently.
  • the base station may decide whether a certain user may enter the MU-MIMO transmission mode (that is, decide the transmitting user) by using an existing decision strategy, for example, based on channel condition, rate requirement, current resource allocation, and the like of the user.
  • the base station calculates the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users, and selects one or more users from the other transmitting users as candidate paired user(s) according to the correlation.
  • the correlation between two users may be calculated by using any known method.
  • the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users may be calculated by using the following equation (6).
  • ⁇ w 1 w 2 H ⁇ w 1 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ w 2 ⁇
  • w1 represents the pre-coding matrix of a paired user
  • w2 represents the pre-coding matrix of a transmitting user
  • the pre-coding matrix of each user may be obtained according to PMI in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the each user.
  • the base station may select one or more users from the other transmitting users as the candidate paired user(s) according to the calculated correlation.
  • the base station may select one or more users with the correlation below a predetermined threshold as the candidate paired user(s).
  • the base station may also select one or more users with the minimum correlation as the candidate paired user(s).
  • step S408 the base station select a paired user from the candidate paired user(s).
  • the base station may select according to the multi-user channel quality indication error of individual candidate paired user(s).
  • the base station select a candidate paired user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error in the fed back downlink channel feedback information from the candidate paired user(s) as the paired user.
  • the base station decides whether a predetermined number of paired users have been selected.
  • the steps S406 and S408 are repeated in order to select other paired users from the transmitting users, until the required number of paired users has been selected.
  • the pairing process ends.
  • the base station uses the multi-user channel quality indication error fed back by the user.
  • the base station may implement more accurate pairing. Therefore, the system performance may be improved.
  • an embodiment of the disclosure provides a communication method in a MIMO system with the method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the above embodiments of the disclosure and the method for user pairing according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • Figure 5 is a flowchart illustrating a communication method in a MIMO system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • a user feeds downlink channel feedback information back to a base station.
  • the user may feed the downlink channel feedback information back to the base station according to the method for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user may include PMI, CQI, and multi-user channel quality indication error, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error may reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user.
  • the user may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error according to equations (1)-(5).
  • the base station decides whether a SU-MIMO transmission mode or a MU-MIMO transmission mode is used.
  • the base station may decide whether the SU-MIMO transmission mode or the MU-MIMO transmission mode is used according to an existing decision strategy.
  • the base station may decide whether the SU-MIMO transmission mode or the MU-MIMO transmission mode is used according to one or more factors of channel condition, rate requirement, current resource allocation of the user, and the like.
  • the base station may obtain a pre-coding matrix based on pre-coding matrix indication in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user, and select a modulation coding mode for the user based on the CQI in the downlink channel feedback information, and the base station does not use the multi-user channel quality indication error for the MU-MIMO transmission mode in the downlink channel feedback information fed back by the user.
  • the base station may select a paired user for the user.
  • the base station may select the paired user for the user according to the method for user pairing according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the above description with respect to Figure 4 may be referred to, and thus will not be repeated for simplicity of the specification.
  • the base station calculates the pre-coding matrix in the MU-MIMO transmission mode and selects the suitable modulation coding mode for individual paired users.
  • the base station may obtain the pre-coding matrix in the MU-MIMO transmission mode based on the pre-coding matrixes of individual paired users (which can be obtained with the PMI fed back by individual paired users), and select the modulation coding mode for individual paired users based on the CQI and multi-user channel quality indication error of individual paired users.
  • the base station may obtain the pre-coding matrix corresponding to each paired user according to the PMI of the each paired user, and then the base station may further obtain the pre-coding matrix in the MU-MIMO transmission mode based on these pre-coding matrixes.
  • G represents the pre-coding matrix in the MU-MIMO transmission mode
  • w1 represents the pre-coding matrix corresponding to the user
  • w2 represents the pre-coding matrix corresponding to the paired user.
  • the base station may calculate the CQI of a paired user in the MU-MIMO mode based on the CQI and the multi-user channel quality indication error in the downlink channel feedback information of the paired user, and accordingly select a modulation coding mode for the user.
  • the CQI of the user in the MU-MIMO mode may be calculated according to the CQI and the multi-user channel quality indication error according to the following equation (8).
  • CQI MU ⁇ MIMO CQI ⁇ V
  • CQI MU-MIMO represents the channel quality indication of the paired user in the MU-MIMO transmission mode
  • CQI represents the value of the CQI included in the downlink channel feedback information of the paired user
  • V represents the multi-user channel quality indication error in the downlink channel feedback information of the paired user.
  • the demodulation bit error rate of the user in the MIMO transmission mode can be reduced and the system performance can be improved.
  • apparatuses corresponding to the methods are also provided.
  • Figure 6 illustrates an apparatus for feeding back downlink channel feedback information of a MIMO system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • the apparatus for feeding back downlink channel feedback information 600 comprises a multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit 602 and a downlink channel feedback information feeding back unit 604.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit 602 may calculate multi-user channel quality indication error of a user.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may reflect the error in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user.
  • Such error may be caused by the parameters difference (such as the signal to noise ratio, synchronization difference, location difference and the like) of the user in the MU-MIMO transmission.
  • the downlink channel feedback information feeding back unit 604 may add the multi-user channel quality indication error to downlink channel feedback information including PMI and CQI, and feeding the same back to a base station for scheduling.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error is further fed back to the base station, so that the error in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user may be reflected more accurately.
  • the user may feed more accurate downlink channel feedback information back to the base station, so that the base station may obtain CQI and modulation coding mode more suitable for the user in a more accurate manner. Therefore, the demodulation error code rate of the user may be reduced in the communication system and the system performance may be improved.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit 602 may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error based on various suitable parameters.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error based on the signal to noise ratio.
  • Figure 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit 700 comprises: a measuring unit 702, a quantization error calculating unit 704, a minimum interference level calculating unit 706, a multi-user mode signal to noise ratio calculating unit 708, and an error calculating unit 710.
  • the measuring unit 702 may measure channel state of the user, thereby to obtain channel information matrix and the signal to noise ratio of the user.
  • the quantization error calculating unit 704 may calculate quantization error, wherein the quantization error is a parameter reflecting the error between the measured channel information matrix and the obtained pre-coding matrix.
  • the quantization error may be calculated according to equation (2) as mentioned above.
  • the minimum interference level calculating unit 706 may find out a user with the minimum interference level to the user out of all the potential paired users to which the user may pair, and calculate the minimum interference level.
  • the minimum interference level may be calculated according to equation (3) as mentioned above.
  • the multi-user mode signal to noise ratio calculating unit 708 may calculate the signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of multi-user.
  • the signal to noise ratio of the user in the situation of multi-user may be calculated by using the quantization error, the minimum interference level, and the measured signal to noise ratio.
  • the signal to noise ratio in the situation of multi-user may be calculated according to equation (4) as mentioned above.
  • the error calculating unit 710 may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error in the multi-user MIMO transmission of the user.
  • the error calculating unit 710 may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error based on the signal to noise ratio measured by the user and the above calculated signal to noise ratio of the user in the multi-user MIMO transmission.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated according to equation (5) as mentioned above.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit may calculate the multi-user channel quality indication error in the situation of multi-user MIMO transmission of the user based on the signal to noise ratio.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit calculates the multi-user channel quality indication error based on the signal to noise ratio, however, the above description is only an example, and the disclosure is not limited to this.
  • the calculation of the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit may also be based on the other parameters (for example, time parameters, location parameters, and the like).
  • the calculation of the multi-user channel quality indication error calculating unit may be based on time parameters, or based on a combination of time parameters and the signal to noise ratio.
  • an embodiment of the disclosure also provides an apparatus for user pairing in MU-MIMO transmission mode in a MIMO system.
  • Figure 8 illustrates an apparatus for user pairing in MU-MIMO transmission mode in a MIMO system according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
  • the apparatus for user pairing 800 comprises: a downlink channel feedback information receiving unit 802, initial paired user selecting unit 804, a correlation calculating unit 806, and a paired user selecting unit 808.
  • the downlink channel feedback information receiving unit 802 may receive downlink channel feedback information from a user.
  • the downlink channel feedback information received by the base station from the user may include PMI, CQI, and multi-user channel quality indication error, wherein the multi-user channel quality indication error is used to reflect the difference in channel quality indication between the situation of multi-user multiple input multiple output transmission and the situation of single user multiple input multiple output transmission of the user.
  • the multi-user channel quality indication error may be calculated with the method according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the initial paired user selecting unit 804 may select an initial paired user from transmitting users.
  • the initial paired user selecting unit 804 may select the user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error from the transmitting users as an initial paired user, for example.
  • the transmitting users may be defined as one or more users which are allowed to enter a MU-MIMO transmission mode out of the users being transmitting data currently.
  • the base station may decide whether a certain user may enter the MU-MIMO transmission mode by using an existing decision strategy, for example, based on channel condition, rate requirement, current resource allocation, and the like of the user.
  • the correlation calculating unit 806 may calculate the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users, and select one or more users as candidate paired user(s) according to the correlation.
  • the correlation between two users may be calculated by using any known method.
  • the correlation of each paired user to each of other transmitting users may be calculated by using equation (6) as mentioned above.
  • the correlation calculating unit 806 may select one or more users from the other transmitting users as the candidate paired user(s) according to the calculated correlation.
  • the correlation calculating unit 806 may select one or more users with the correlation below a predetermined threshold as the candidate paired user(s).
  • the correlation calculating unit 806 may also select one or more users with the minimum correlation as the candidate paired user(s).
  • the paired user selecting unit 808 may select a paired user from the candidate paired user(s).
  • the base station may select according to the multi-user channel quality indication error of individual candidate paired user(s).
  • the base station may select a candidate paired user with the minimum multi-user channel quality indication error in the fed back downlink channel feedback information as the paired user.
  • the correlation calculating unit 806 and the paired user selecting unit 808 may repeat their operations until a predetermined number of paired users have been selected.
  • the base station uses the multi-user channel quality indication error fed back by the user.
  • the base station may implement more accurate pairing. Therefore, the system performance may be improved.
  • the downlink channel feedback information fed by the user back to the base station only includes one PMI indication (for example, corresponding to the feedback scheme of single codebook).
  • the disclosure is not limited to this, and the method (apparatus) for feeding back downlink channel feedback information and the method (apparatus) for user pairing according to the embodiments of the disclosure may also be applied to other feedback schemes.
  • a user feeds one PMI back to a base station (that is, single codebook feedback scheme), and the PMI corresponds to one pre-coding matrix.
  • a user feeds two PMI back to a base station (that is, dual codebook feedback scheme), wherein one PMI corresponds to transmission bandwidth information of the downlink channel and the other PMI corresponds to sub-band information in the transmission bandwidth of the downlink channel; the pre-coding matrix is decided by both matrixes to which these two PMI correspond.
  • the method (apparatus) for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the embodiments of the disclosure and the method (apparatus) for user pairing according to the embodiments of the disclosure may also be applied to the above dual codebook feedback scheme.
  • the process of calculating multi-user channel quality indication error by the user is the same to the process of single codebook feedback scheme as described above in connection with Figure 3 using equations (1)-(5).
  • the difference between the dual codebook feedback scheme and the single codebook feedback scheme is only that the feedback formats are different, that is, the downlink channel feedback information fed by the user back to the base station includes two PMI, CQI, and the multi-user channel quality indication error in the dual codebook feedback scheme.
  • the process of user pairing in the MU-MIMO transmission mode by the base station is the same to the process as described above in connection with Figure 4 .
  • the method (apparatus) for feeding back downlink channel feedback information and the method (apparatus) for user pairing according to the embodiments of the disclosure are not limited to the above single codebook feedback scheme and dual codebook feedback scheme, and may also be extended to be applied to more other feedback schemes.
  • the transmission bandwidth is further divided into at least one sub-band.
  • the PMI portion of downlink channel feedback information fed by a user back to a base station may include PMI corresponding to the transmission bandwidth information, and at least one sub-band PMI individually corresponding to the at least one sub-band in the transmission bandwidth.
  • the method (apparatus) for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the embodiments of the disclosure and the method (apparatus) for user pairing according to the embodiments of the disclosure may also be applied to the above feedback scheme.
  • the user may use the process according to the above embodiments of the disclosure (for example, with reference to Figure 3 and equations (1)-(5)) to calculate corresponding multi-user channel quality indication error for each sub-band.
  • the downlink channel feedback information fed by the user back to the base station includes: PMI portion, which includes the PMI corresponding to the transmission bandwidth information of the downlink channel, and at least one sub-band PMI corresponding to the at least one sub-band in the transmission bandwidth of the downlink channel; at least one multi-user channel quality indication error individually corresponding to the at least one sub-band; and at least one CQI individually corresponding to the at least one sub-band.
  • the PMI and CQI corresponding to each sub-band may be obtained based on the SNR and channel information matrix measured by the user for each sub-band.
  • the method (apparatus) for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the embodiments of the disclosure and the method (apparatus) for user pairing according to the embodiments of the disclosure may also be applied to other feedback schemes or the feedback schemes which may occur in future, and the description thereof will be omitted for simplicity of the specification.
  • an embodiment of the disclosure provides a communication terminal comprising the apparatus for feeding back downlink channel feedback information according to the embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the terminal according to the embodiments of the disclosure may feed the multi-user channel quality indication error back to the base station, so that the error in channel quality indication between the situation of MU-MIMO transmission and the situation of SU-MIMO transmission of the user may be reflected more accurately. Therefore, the system performance may be improved.
  • An embodiment of the disclosure also provides a base station comprising the apparatus for user pairing in MU-MIMO transmission mode in a MIMO system according to the embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the base station according to the embodiments of the disclosure may implement more accurate pairing in the MU-MIMO transmission mode. Therefore, the system performance may be improved.
  • an embodiment of the disclosure provides a MIMO communication system comprising at least one communication terminal according to the above embodiments of the disclosure and at least one base station according to the above embodiments of the disclosure.
  • the MIMO system according to the embodiments of the disclosure may implement more accurate pairing in the MU-MIMO transmission mode. Therefore, the system performance may be improved.
  • Various component modules and units of the above apparatuses may be configured by software, firmware, hardware or their combination thereof. Specific means and manners that may be used by the configuration are well known to those skilled in the art, and details are omitted here.
  • program constituting the software may be mounted to a computer having a dedicated hardware structure from a storage medium or network (for example, the universal computer 900 as illustrated in Fig. 9 ), when the computer is mounted with various program, the computer may execute various functions.
  • a central processing unit (CPU) 901 perform various processes according to the program stored in the Read-Only Memory (ROM) 902 or programs load from the storage unit 908 to the Random Access Memory (RAM) 903.
  • RAM 903 store also data required when the CPU 901 performs various processes.
  • CPU 901, ROM 902 and RAM 903 are connected from one to another via bus 904.
  • Input/output interface 905 is also connected to the bus 904.
  • input unit 906 including keyboard, mouse, etc.
  • output unit 907 including display, such as cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display (LCD), etc., and speakers and so on
  • storage unit 908 including hard disc, etc.
  • communication part 909 including network interface cards such as LAN cards, modems and so on.
  • the communication unit 909 performs communication process via network like the internet.
  • drive 910 is also connected to the input/output interface 905.
  • Detachable medium 911 such as disc, CD, magneto-optical disc, semiconductor memory, and so on is installed on the drive 910 based on requirements, such that the computer program read out therefrom is installed in the storage unit 908 based on requirements.
  • programs constituting the software are installed from a network like the Internet or from a storage medium like the detachable medium 911.
  • Such storage medium is not limited to the detachable medium 911 which is stored with programs and distributes separate from the method to provide a user with program as illustrated in Fig. 9 .
  • the example of the detachable medium 911 includes disc (including floppy disc (registered marks)), CD (including CD read only memory (CD-ROM) and digital versatile disc (DVD)), magneto-optical disc (including mini-disc (MD) (registered marks)) and semiconductor memory.
  • the storage medium may be ROM 902, or hard disc included in the storage unit 908 in which a program is stored and the program is distributed to a user with the method including the same.
  • the disclosure also provides a program product storing machine readable instruction code.
  • the instruction code may implement the method according to the embodiment of the disclosure.
  • a storage medium for carrying the program code storing the machine readable instruction code is also included in the disclosure.
  • the storage medium includes, but not limited to, Floppy disk, CD-ROMs, magneto-optical disk, memory card, memory stick, etc.

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